Live Food Cultures

[dixaisy930]

I'm trying to decide on which live food to try for my pygmy cories, scarlet badis badis, and peacock goby. I've looked into daphnia, microworms (nematodes), and freshwater copepods. I want something that takes little care, and that I don't have to keep in the fridge. I'm also wondering if the microworms and fw copepods will be too small for these fish. I've also read that microworms don't have much nutritional value. Is that true?

 

[BigC]

Try Grindalworms and Moina (Japanese Daphnia) which is smaller.
See my pinned topic in the killifish section.
Regards
BigC

 

[OldMan47]

I am feding mine both microworms and daphnia. They seem to appreciate both. The microworms are much less trouble to culture and feed than the daphnia but they are only a treat. The cories live on a growth formula balanced food and get the other items only as treats. In my fish room there is not enough of either for daily feeding of a single tank so I rotate who gets the treats each day and don't end up exhausting either food source. The microworms are really on hand as fry food but I need to do something with them when there are no fry to feed. I gut load my microworms by raising them on enriched baby cereal.